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Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
Fighter jets, attack drones hammer Rafah; catastrophe looms – Day 217
Israel expands its attack of Rafah; Biden admin reports that Israeli use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza “likely violated international humanitarian law”; food catastrophe looms as Israel continues to block aid trucks; South Africa wants ICJ to intervene in Rafah; UN General Assembly strongly supports Palestine’s quest for statehood; Israel withholds millions it owes Palestinian Authority; UN wants investigation into mass graves in Gaza
What it’s like to be used as a human shield by the Israeli army
Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters.
Detailed study finds 99% of pro-Palestine protests at US universities are peaceful
Data from a leading source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity across the globe show that the majority of campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza are peaceful.
VIDEO: Armenian Christians under siege by Israel
Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacement at the hands of a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
Ex-Israeli special forces agent says he went ‘undercover’ at UCLA protest encampment
While LA police were cracking down on a Gaza solidarity encampment set up by students at the UCLA, an Israeli special operations veteran was boasting online about running a “quiet infiltration operation” into the camp.
The mainstream media distorted our anti-Vietnam War protests 50 years ago. They’re following the same strategy today
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
Pete McCloskey, longtime supporter of Palestinians and USS Liberty veterans, has passed away
Former prominent Congressman Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, a long time supporter of Palestinian rights and USS Liberty veterans, died of congestive heart failure peacefully at his home in Winters, California, on May 8th. “The bravest man I have ever known, both in war and politics”
Israel will kill Palestinians just fine without US heavy payload weapons; humanitarian crisis spirals – Day 216
Hunger, danger deepen all over Gaza; refugees streaming out of Rafah with nowhere safe to go; deadly airdrops have killed over 20; Israeli leaders will keep war going “with God’s help”; Israeli settlers torch UNRWA office for a second time; 300 Palestinian Bedouin face homelessness after militarized Israeli police bulldoze village; more
Apartheid to fossil fuels: Columbia’s history of divestment before Gaza
Colombia University, at the center of protests against Israel’s Gaza war, has a tradition of student action bringing divestment.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the ‘liquidation of all untruths’
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.